Tim Steenbergh recently attended the Conference for the Society for Ambulatory Assessment at Penn State University. Here are his highlights from this exciting event. Every other year, a group of experts on mobile assessment and

When starting an experience sampling study, it is important to consider the different types of variables you can study. And how data should be gathered. This blog addresses these two issues, and hopefully can help

For experience sampling, you might ask questions a number of different ways. However, we might not know that certain types of questions have titles, and that you can ask certain questions in these ways. Further,

With the advent of mobile technology, experience sampling/ecological momentary assessment has taken a turn for the better. Whereas researchers had trouble with people back-filling data entries (i.e. they waited to the last minute to fill

With the FIFA World Cup Championship in the recent past, here is an experience sampling study that shows how last year’s Men’s World Cup actually improved a psychological measure called subjective well-being (SWB) in German

Download PDF Studying people in everyday life has several names. While many of them are generally used interchangeably, each has a slightly different nuance. Here’s a list, and the characteristics, of each of them. Experience

What can we discover about happiness in everyday life? Researchers from the University of Cambridge set out to answer this question, using a smartphone app. The researchers used an app in which participants played a

Facebook is a part of everyday life. Here’s how to use it to improve your life.   Stop using it. Ok, maybe not totally. But here’s why:   Researchers from University of Michigan studied young

This is Part 2 of a two-blog post. Final take-aways from Dr. Conner’s Experience Sampling are discussed. Last month, I attended the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Sciences in New York City. One of the

Last month, I attended the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Sciences in New York City. One of the conference highlights was a workshop by Dr. Tamlin Conner of the University of Otago in